From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Guessing based on file extension
Date: 02 Jan 2000 17:11:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <whaemobgie.fsf@viffer.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "02 Jan 2000 16:35:08 +0100"
>>>>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>:
> I believe guessing is the thing to do. Unless the message is from a
> Mac or BeOS user, the content-type is almost always the sending
> agents best guess based on file extension, and
> "application/octet-stream" means that the sending agent couldn't
> guess anything.
In the case of one major offender, MS Outlook and Outlook Express,
"wouldn't" is a better description than "couldn't".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-02 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-02 7:24 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-01-02 7:43 ` Daniel Pittman
2000-01-02 8:02 ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 16:09 ` Alan Shutko
2000-01-02 22:42 ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 15:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-01-02 16:11 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2000-01-02 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-01-03 12:05 ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-04 19:41 ` François Pinard
2000-01-04 23:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-05 0:02 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-05 7:47 ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-05 18:29 ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
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